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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > South Campus Building Profiles > Acheson Hall Annex

Acheson Hall Annex

Acheson Hall Annex

Facility:
Number:
Function:
Gross Square Feet:
Construction Cost:
Completed:
Architect:

ACH_A
0064
Academic
10,140
$116,000
June, 1966
Butler, Inc.

OCCUPANTS 

Acheson Hall Annex Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

This temporary metal building was erected in 1966 to provide additional classroom space. It is scheduled for demolition within the next few years or so the story goes. With the limited amount of building space, it proves very difficult to part with such structures.

NAMESAKE 

Edward Goodrich AchesonEdward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931) was a successful independant inventor and industrialist who originally worked for Thomas Edison. Acheson invented silicon carbide which he called "carborundum". He then brought an electrochemical company in 1895 to Niagara Falls called Carborundum, Inc. which is still in business today.